Download First Paragraph of the Articles of Confederation, 1777

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First Paragraph of the Articles of Confederation, 1777
To all to whom these Presents shall come, we, the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed
to our Names send greeting. Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America in
Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of
America agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of
Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Georgia in the Words following, viz. “Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union
between the States of Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence
Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Article I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be, “The United States of America.”
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